Tari Development Update

The Tari development community is hard at work on the Layer 2
, and this week we take a look at the Covenants RFC and quality of life improvements in the Tari mobile wallet
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Covenants RFC
Previously we posted
for covenants on Tari. After some discussion,
was published for community feedback.
Let’s take a quick look at the proposal. Covenants allow the spender of a transaction output (
) to place restrictions on how that output can subsequently be spent.
Wait – that sounds like
TariScript
? Not exactly – the script on a UTXO only restricts how it may be
spent in a transaction
. Once it is spent, the resulting output has no such restriction. That is the functionality covenants aim to provide.
The proposed implementation will add a
field to each transaction input and output. Each covenant is composed of
, filtering the output set using a discreet set of rules. If at least one output in the set is matched by the filtering rules, the covenant is upheld and the output can be included in a new transaction and block.
Normal transactions will have the identity (ie. empty) covenant – meaning that no restriction is applied.
royalty covenant would have to ensure a few things:
that the features that define the output are preserved (its unique id and metadata)
TariScript
of the output is preserved (scripting a royalty payment)
and that the covenant itself is preserved (ensuring royalties on subsequent transfers)
This does lead to protocol and consensus changes – the covenant must be committed to in the output hash to prevent
, and must be validated when entering the mempool and before being included in the blockchain.
More information on the proposed set operation functions and other examples are available
If you have any feedback, please come discuss the Covenants RFC with us on IRC in
Discord server
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Aurora Mobile Wallet
Upcoming version
of the reference Tari mobile wallet includes a lovely new user experience when entering seed words for recovery.
Since these words are part of
, it makes sense to assist the user by filtering words as letters are typed.
That means a lot less typing! 2 to 4 letters are enough to find your word and tap the suggestion 😎
See it in action in this video: